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Apart from it telling you the world is here because of a floating head.

With that one example, I doubt much today if you go to Japan you'd find people willing to do that, and it would surprise me if back in WWII that Japan had already become secular ahead of pretty much the rest of the world. Also the number of people doing this for the sake of a god is far higher than people doing it for anyone else, so I definitely wouldn't say his point 'shines through'. I'm not saying there wouldn't be war without religion, but there would be less pointless war (people fighting because they think some mythical being disapproves of something). Moreover, many wars don't really actually affect me, but it seems extremists acting in the name of 'god' will actually bring their argument to people who have nothing to do with any war which is particularly disgusting. Put it like this, it would take something very special for Muslim extremists to blow up the twin towers had they been brought up in a secular household and had no influence/little to sway them in the way of God. They may be radicals and not reflective of Islam, but Islam is still the building block and without it they couldn't have become extremists. Humans would still fight? Let them. At least with religion gone it would be one less thing to fight about, and any future fights probably wouldn't be randomly directed against innocent people doing nothing more than working in their job or travelling on the tube, rather directed at whatever country they have a problem with, like the good old days.

Unfortunately with such things like the Bible, probably the Koran too...the fact that it cannot be taken too literally means you get people taking home 'their own message' from the texts, which is no doubt what extremists have done. That, and adding their own spin to it. I'm not saying the creator's of religions intended for such views to be held, but at the heart of extremists views is the very thought that they are acting under the name of 'god'. My point? I just think that atheist extremist bombers would be hard to come by since it really does appear that the only way someone would do something so absolutely mental as explode themselves is if they truly believed this would guarantee them a place in 'paradise'. But really most of my dislike for religion is just that it's believed even though most of it is nonsenscial, and would you find anything else in life so contrived you'd deem it to be merely a 'story' or a work of fiction. Something to think about. : peace:

One of those people whose name most people have heard, but frankly most people don't really know/couldn't care less about. :p

What is there to understand other than it is a collection of, mostly, stories? You read through so much of it and it's full of things that could not happen, ever. An old man building an arc and putting 2 of every animal in? Just no. I don't for the life of me understand how anyone can believe in a religion when common sense and the fact that most things in there cannot be reproduced, nor are any of the 'supernatural' or magical happenings ever proven. Religion is a very dangerous thing. Religions are pretty much cults and really are an excellent 'controlling device'. In the past they served their purpose; the king/queen was divine (conveniant for keeping people under control), and really there wasn't any other explanation for the way things were. Ignorance was rife, so too was religion. It just happens that religions were conjured thousands of years ago, instead of the cults invented more recently, and they're more popular. This somehow makes them untouchable and allows people to go absolutely nuts under the name of these cults. Sorry if this offends anyone. But if people can declare so strongly their beliefs of god (not just in the teddy bear situation in general, but in all wakes of life) then I feel I am equally allowed to declare so storngly how I think it's all bollocks. One big (and perhaps over-optimistic) wish for the future I have is that religion has dwindled massively, as it really does seem to be the root of many arguments. I know people say this is human nature, but I myself go throughout life day in day out in a society where people do not declare war on each other. It would be lovely if that's all people did to each other throughout the world in the future.

I tend to prefer anime. One Piece for example - the anime is so much better. The voice and mannerisms of Luffy are sorely missed in the manga, as well as the music and generally just the voice acting of everyone. Fillerish recaps did do my head in somewhat, but overall I tend to enjoy anime a lot more. Like someone said though, Berserk manga is more graphic and covers 10 times the amount of the anime (well, just a guess) and really feels so much different, mostly due to the anime not focusing so much on demons as that's the only period in the story when they're not that common. It's more about the character development in that chunk of the story.

Mohammed Ali Hamadei- A terrorist implicated in taking many people's lives. No outrage over him being called Mohammed and doing such deeds. Teddy bear named Muhammed - woman only slightly involved is requested to be killed. All religions are absolute nonsense.

Yes but the question is why is it so important that humans are cured at the expense of animals dying? Bear in mind that as a scientist I know, far far more animals are killed than humans saved each year through direct action of drugs that were tested on animals for humans (this year). The payoff doesn't cut it. Mikey sounds like an arrogant ****, the kind that you'd sock in real life if you saw him. He has gone one step further than simply stating his agreement of testing for human benefits, by actually ripping into animals and acting superior. Those kind of people are scum and deserve no right to live. Animals being tested on is completely wrong. Micro-organisms for the most part can be used for a wide varitety of stuff, and honestly it just isn't right to claim that you can allow one life to live at the expense of 200 mice. I mean, I hear in experiments how they do things such as experimentally ablate mice Bone Marrow and re-engraft with human stem cells - many mice don't live and simply are starved to death of blood. Then let's not get started on mice that have tumours actually injected into them to determine signalling pathways. Original Poster in this topic was shown a load of BS on that video; in actual fact animal testing is far worse. In truth, there is no justification for saving humans while killing animals. People quite honestly couldn't care about saving each other as they don't know each other, yet suddenly everyone expects someone else to cure them. Sad state of affairs.

Award for most ridiculous thing to do with it? I'd use it for very, very bad things. Things I wouldn't be proud of.

Backfired in sales, but in games it definitely won it for me.

Actually you could use it to commit crimes. There was an episode where another kid had a watch too and was pausing time, putting someone outside a high storey building, unpausing time and watching them scream until they nearly hit the floor then pausing again and putting them back indoors. Made no sense regarding physics, but the kid could do what he wanted because apparently the excuse was "once you get given a watch it is yours".

Stopping time doesn't seem to affect Peter though. Peter has a lot more at his disposal really. He could just go invisible and Hiro wouldn't really know what to do. I thought the ending was ridiculous, seeing as Hiro even admitted his intention was to go stop them getting the virus, yet gives the excuse 'he killed my father'. Also given he knew Peter was a good guy really, you'd think he'd explain to him the situation rather than gutlessly charge at him. I think the delivery of the fake ashes scene to claire was frankly ridiculous. Would you allow the guy who hired someone who killed your father to walk out? And would you barely even question the fact they cremated him due to some wishes they said he had (this coming from someone you can't trust a word of). Sometimes the plot is absolute bollocks.

So are the people responsible for this woman's treatment over the teddy bear fiasco not Muslims? I'd safely bet people deem them to be. Because they believe in Muhammed they feel the need to impose their views on her, which is disgusting. People who deliberately impose their views on others for their own person reasons should be shot, then shot again. All religions are absolute bollocks, just Islam at this current time probably worse than the others. I can only hope in the future religion has dwindled dramatically and people see sense. For ****'s sake, there is no God, the world was not made in 7 days, nor were there prophets, nor were there prophets receiving 'divine instructions'. Why? Because there is no proof for such supernatural phenomenoms, all we have are dusty old texts that are a bunch of nonsense and large groups of people too stubborn to accept that they are meaningless specks on the surface of a planet with no future past their demise. That said I would never prejudice a person for being religious, even though I see religion as ridiculous. I often see churches and think about what a waste of bricks and mortar they are.

I think most people rather would. Like gossip magazines, but tasteful.

Scrubs may have been best in Season 2/3 (the Polyphonic Spree appearance was legendary) but I still think the recent episodes are magical. Cox rants just do it for me. I really liked the musical too. At first I disliked it because it took up the space of a regular episode, but the musical has great replay value. Love scrubs.

I purchased 4 manga volumes for my girlfriend.. ...and an Um Bongo.

I find it odd how some people can believe in fate but not religion. Both require some supernatural being/force to have 'knowledge' of what is going to happen - like a written or stored record of the events as they shall happen. What I wonder is how big this backup tape/hard drive with the save file for 'planet earth' must be and where the hell is it being stored?

Unfortunately, every console suffers from this. Why? It's far quicker and cheaper to churn out grade-F **** than star titles like Galaxy, thus there will be more of them. That, and there are many morons out there who will buy these games.

Other than SSBB, no good can come from Mario and Sonic teaming up. They're just there to sell the game really, almost like the Final Fantasy name helped sell FFXI (and let's face it, if it didn't have that it really wouldn't have gone far).

I liked it but it is definitely generic.

If it's not released here I'll buy you the US console and game myself.

Really? What if people posted something illegal? Surely they can do a straight-forward IP ban or access all the comment accounts...

I have a suggestion. If you ever read any news and take a look at the comments, chances are you'll see a reply by Solitanze. I suggest that you ban him from commenting- not only because he spams the comment page with nonsense (and any other kind of spam would probably result in a ban) but also because you would literally save him from wasting his life researching (which in fairness, probably takes some time) and producing this nonsense. Here's the latest: I mean, is there anything more ridiculous? He uses statistics - often unreliable averages (Mario Picross with 2 reviews for example) and then types phrases in BLOCK CAPITALS which is frankly annoying. He gets right on everyone's tits, ban for the winneth please!

If anything the lack of Wii's is making them all the more desirable...it's like a must have item.

When I saw a trailer for this I saw a load of games that were already in Twilight Princess. Is it mostly just recycled material?